New gene mutation found to cause 'bubble boy disease'
Approximately one in every million people develop a group of inherited disorders known as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) or "bubble boy disease". Characterized by inherited abnormal changes in B and T cells of their immune system, these individuals often suffer from numerous ...New protein identified in development of lung cancer
...eath in the United States and claims more than one million lives worldwide every year....Army-funded effort examines androgen's role in bone loss
... its young recruits, is funding a four-year, $1.72 million project through the Department of Defense Peer Rev...teoporosis in the aging population." Of the 1.3 million bone fractures attributed to osteoporosis each year, 150,000 are hip fractures that occur in men wit...A $2 Million NSF grant brings technology and biology together at UC Riverside
...e future breakthroughs to be pioneered by a new $2 million National Science Foundation project at UC Riversid...r Conservation Biology, will bring a total of $5.5 million for research to UCR over the next several years. In August, Prof. Norman Ellstrand earned a $1...Genome of ancient fish could reveal evolutionary mysteries, Stanford scientists say
...nch of the fish family headed for land roughly 360 million years ago. Because it has changed so little the coelacanth is ideal for genetic comparisons. Any genetic feature found in all land animals but lacking in the coelacanth could represent a change that makes living on land possible. Noonan s...Poisoning solved after millions of years
...of animals and plants from a tropical landscape 47 million years ago, all of them excellently preserved. Nowh...o provide direct evidence of toxic agents after 47 million years....Endurance running may be key to evolution of human body form
...e can be found in human skulls dating back several million years, but the fossils of early humans at Harvard'...e not needed for walking. "There were 2.5 million to 3 million years of bipedal walking [by australopithecines] without ever looking like a human, so ......more ape-like human ancestors, Australopithecus, 2 million or more years ago because natural selection favore...lved in the ape-like Australopithecus at least 4.5 million years ago while they also retained the ability to travel through the trees. Yet Homo with its "radic...Earth Science World receives 2004 Scientific American.com Web Award
...s a valuable educational resource. With over 3.25 million images downloaded to date, the ImageBank is a prime resource of the geologic community to the public. Earth Science World also includes a number of other interactive components. The book center provides a comprehensive listing of the latest geosc...Diamonds are a urologist's best friend
...lth care system this means additional costs of 500 million Euros annually. 'Up to now there has not been any effective way of preventing bacteria from entering the urinary tract via the catheter and thereby triggering urinary tract infection,' the Bonn researcher Dr. Norbert Laube explains. Several species o...New fossil may be closest yet to ancestor of all great apes
... These features, plus the fossil's age of about 13 million years, suggest that this species was probably clos...ntains modern gibbons and siamangs, about 11 to 16 million years ago. Fossil evidence from this time period, the middle Miocene epoch, is sparse, however, ...Low-carb diet during pregnancy improved triglycerides, fat metabolism in offspring
...mber 22, 2004 It has been estimated that up to 32 million Americans have adopted the low-carb style of eating, in part because of its quick and dramatic results. Converts often maintain components of low-carb eating long after they've officially finished dieting. Not surprisingly, a growing number of pre...Studies suggest promising new directions for gallstone treatment
...ugs to prevent the disease, which afflicts some 20 million people a year. The studies also propose novel strategies for developing diagnostic tests to identify people with a genetically increased risk for developing gallstones. A research team led by David J. Mangelsdorf , a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...UGA researchers explain recent decline in Georgia's blue crab population
...verage for blue crab landings in the state was 8.6 million pounds per year, but at the height of the drought landings fell to 1.8 million pounds. This sharp and sustained reduction in yearly catch drove most of the state's blue crab fishe...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
... The Census database has assembled more than 5.2 million new and previously existing records mapping the di...0 marine species, an exponential increase from 1.1 million records and 25,000 species at this time last year. The progress, which tops a list of Census highli...Heart protein could be used to repair damage caused by heart attack
...ice, the impact by sheer volume is great nearly 1 million people have heart attacks every year just in the United States," said Dr. Deepak Srivastava, professor of molecular biology and pediatrics and the study's senior author. "The delivery is very simple and avoids many of the problems of using stem cells...'Lighter than air' breathing more than doubles COPD patients' exercise endurance
...th men and women by the year 2020. NHLBI says 12.1 million Americans 25 and older were diagnosed with COPD in 2001. Estimated cost of COPD in 2002 was $32.1 billion, of which $18 billion were direct costs. COPD is characterized by shortness of breath (dyspnea) and exercise intolerance. Among severely aff...MBL scientists embark on international effort to uncover microbial diversity in world's oceans
...ting in the world's oceans, with approximately one million microbes per milliliter of seawater and one billion bacteria per gram of sediment, this plan to develop a database on marine microbes linked to genomic and other data is an extremely critical and timely venture," said Sogin. ICoMM joins a dozen o...Scientists first to grow common cause of food poisoning in the lab
...l food poisoning cases and annually cause about 23 million cases of acute gastroenteritis in the United States. Norovirus disease is characterized by frequent vomiting and diarrhea over the course of one to two days. The most infamous norovirus, the Norwalk virus, was first identified after a 1968 outbreak ......t procedure. Stress incontinence affects nearly 15 million people primarily women around the world. It occu... grown, using a patented technique that yielded 50 million new muscle cells (myoblasts) and 50 million connective tissue cells (fibroblasts) after six weeks. W...